On Fri, 2019-01-18 at 09:25 -0700, Brian Inglis wrote:
Not any different than the situations on reserves in the US e.g. Arizona, or various other locations where the time used locally differs from the official time at the local USPO or other goverment outpost. Seems more like an agreement across atolls/regions to keep to a more "relaxed" time zone for tourist reasons.
Apples and oranges! Indian reservations in the US are actually considered 'sovereign nations', with the relationship to the United States defined by treaty. As such, they have autonomous governments that are recognized by and accountable to their residents. The recent case with Metlakatla voting to change its time zone in a general election illustrates this well. This is quite different from some syndicate buying an island and then deciding to change the clocks on an _ad hoc_ basis. Such a move has no standing with the sovereign entity within which that island resides. It's just a private arrangement, and as such neither needs nor deserves wider recognition. Cheers! |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Getting old isn't difficult, it just takes a long time. | | | | -- Robert Heinlein | | "The Notebooks of Lazarus Long" | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|